Dagster

What it is for

Dagster is an asset orchestration desk: you declare assets, schedule or sense them, and watch runs in one UI. Use it when the job is pipelines you start on Solo at $10/month (30-day trial) or OSS $0, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Dagster Runs table (id, target, status, duration) from the webserver docs — not a pricing card. The table itself is ops of Assets.

Key features

• Assets — software-defined tables, files, or models you materialize (pricing; Asset Factories). One asset. Lineage and the Runs table (cover) are ops of this. The Python library is install.
• Schedules — time-based ticks that launch a run. A clock, not a materialization you clicked. Cron-style ticks sit here.
• Sensors — event-driven ticks (a file landed, a partition appeared). A watch, not a schedule. Event-driven pipelines sit here.
• Catalog — search and health across assets (pricing Catalog Search on Starter). A find, not a run. Starter includes it; Solo does not print it.
• Self-host / Hybrid — the open-source orchestrator you run; Dagster+ Cloud is Solo / Starter (pricing). A deploy, not an asset. Hybrid has no serverless compute charge. Serverless compute is $0.010 / minute.

Credits are the Cloud meter (Solo $0.040 / credit; Starter $0.035). Users and code locations are caps. The page now notes Dagster is part of Prefect — the product and the pricing cards are still this desk.

Who it's for

Best fit: data teams who will stay on OSS / Hybrid $0 compute while they materialize a first asset, or start the Solo 30-day trial and land on $10/month (1 user, 1 code location) when they want Dagster+ without a cluster.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) from dagster.io/pricing. Cloud is platform fee + credits. OSS self-host is $0.

• Solo — $10 / month + $0.040 / credit. 1 user. 1 code location. 1 deployment. Serverless compute $0.010 / minute (if you use Serverless). 30-day free trial.
• Starter — $100 / month + $0.035 / credit. Up to 3 users. 5 code locations. 1 deployment. Catalog Search. Same serverless $0.010 / minute.
• Hybrid — no compute charge; you run the customer runtime. Platform fee and credits still apply on Solo / Starter.
• Enterprise — custom (the page points larger teams at a demo).
• OSS — $0. You run the orchestrator.

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Limitations / costs

• Solo is 1 user and 1 code location. A second teammate is Starter at $100 / month.
• Credits are a second bill. The $10 / $100 floor does not include heavy materializations.
• An asset desk, not a zap canvas. For click-together workflows see n8n. For SQL-first pipelines see Mage.

Alternatives

• Mage — notebook-style data pipelines when you will not declare assets this way.
• n8n — a visual workflow canvas when the job is zaps, not warehouse assets.
• Inngest — event-wrapped durable functions when the unit is a step, not an asset.

Official tutorial

Official Dagster channel video: Asset Factories Demo (oEmbed author: Dagster). First-party asset walkthrough; the Runs table still is the cover.

Written path: dagster.io/pricing plus the official Runs table in the docs.

Website

https://dagster.io

Repository

https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Dagster Runs table from the docs. Dollars checked on dagster.io/pricing (Solo $10 + $0.040/credit; Starter $100 + $0.035/credit; serverless $0.010/min; OSS $0). Tutorial oEmbed author: Dagster.

Last verified

2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.